For example we inquired at Wang, and were told that they had offered Dvorak for
years. But it seemed that they didn't have it on their nice new computer; it was on
a prior version, really a minicomputer, requiring a more complicated setup that ...

I discovered that they don't make a Dvorak disk for the print-wheel typewriters,
and the element typewriters are too limited for my needs. So I decided to go all
the way to the twentieth century and computerize. Of course I had qualms. I tend
to ...

I like it very well, but it still was not easy. You see, I'm an ornery independent nut
— it's the way ogres are — and I don't use the standard KWERTY keyboard. I use Dvorak. Most computer systems have it, and so does this one — but mine is the ...

Then on Tuesday I started out by cleaning thealgae from the pool,then putting Dvorak letters on mydownstairs computer keyboardso I wouldn'thave to keep
carrying my upstairs keyboard down andmaybe dropping it.See, the big lettersare
all ...

Consider the typewriter keyboard: I, being a progressive thinker, use the superior Dvorak layout. Most others refuse to change from the designed-to-be- inefficient
QWERTY layout. It would pay the rest of the world to follow my example and ...

1 use the Dvorak keyboard, which has the vowels on the home row on the left
side, and the most used consonants on the home row on the right side. It's a
better layout than QWERTY, but it's hard to get on a computer. My wife, who was
a ...

I changed to the new keyboard, with my Dvorak layout pasted on, in Chapter
Nine, during Chlorine's seduction scene, right after the window fan and before
the ogre eater. So, again, if you notice a change . . . So my life shifted in the
course of ...

SoIsaved about40% of my writing time,and that was glorious. Atany rate, I
lostsome time duringthis novel as we shopped for computers and finally found
asystem that could accommodate my Dvorak keyboard, so the matteris worth
noting here.

You know, word-processing is hailed as a great boon to writers, but I do more
actual writing in pencil and on the manual typewriter than anyone I know who is
in word-processing; technology does not substitute for imagination and a Dvorak
...

I'm not a fast typist, either, though I use the world's most efficient keyboard, the Dvorak Simplified, further modified for my needs; I may be the only writer with the
sense to put the often-used quotation marks on the lowercase shift for added ...